Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University lacrosse team lost the practice game with the Boston Lacrosse Club on Saturday afternoon by the score of 6 to 4. An inexperienced defence was largely responsible for the defeat, and from now until the regular season begins particular stress will be laid on the coaching of that department. P. Gustafson '12 and J. F. Foristall '13 starred for Boston, while the best playing for the University was done by F. E. Abbe '14, W. E. Nightingale '15, and P. Catton '15. The line-up was as follows: HARVARD. BOSTON L. C. Cochran, Bradley, g. g., Lincoln Fales...
...victory over Yale today, following the decisive defeat of Cornell on Thursday would give the University soccer team a splendid start toward another intercollegiate championship. Yale has shown an unusually strong team in her early season games but the chances are even. All success to Captain Francke and his team this afternoon...
...materialistic realism appear in Mr. H. F. Brock's one-act play, "The Bank Account." Its conclusion might well have been made more poignant and powerful without violating truth to life, for even a being mentally so starved as its chief character would express himself more fully upon the defeat of all his hopes. On the whole, however, the piece is skillful and affecting. Its theme is a timely one, and recalls the candid words in which Mrs. Andrew W. White last year condemned "the neglect of the great body of women to study or practice economy, or to teach...
...congratulations, and to the team that lost, our sympathy; to every man who worked to make the season a success, our appreciation for doing his best. Debating has won its place among the truly strenuous diversions, and as feeling is proportionate to the intensity of the effort, a defeat and a victory bring a mingling of the bitterest and the sweetest. We should not grieve too much for a championship that might have been: if this year's efforts have failed to bring us more than divided honors, they have at least accomplished a revival of general interest...
...additional nominations to be made on petition of fifty members fails to help matters much, because the securing of fifty signatures is almost a prohibitive task. Nomination by petition should be made easier. Otherwise there is bound to be a feeling of dissatisfaction in the Union, and this will defeat its primary purpose...